Pottery plate "a la stecca" from Pisa

Part of a plate with an annular foot ring and convex umbo. It is covered by a green coloured glaze on top of which is a black spiral motif in the Italian style of “graffita a stecca”. This type of decoration is composed of a drawn central geometric pattern in the inner part of the plate from which spirals emerge which decorate the rest of the inside of the plate. These plates were manufactured in the pottery workshops of Pisa (Italy), and are good evidence of the busy trade links between Italy and Alicante from the end of the medieval period. This is the period when Alicante became one of the most important ports in the Kingdom of Valencia. CS: 11316 MENENDEZ FUEYO, J.L. & LÓPEZ PADILLA, J.A., 2005.